I’m sitting in Bangalore Airport waiting for British Air flight 11 to take me back to Heathrow where I’ll connect to Los Angeles. How different this cross-section of Indians in this waiting area who can afford a thousand dollar flight from the morass of humanity which clambers just outside this building’s doors.
This has been a […]

I was told yesterday of a ‘dowry death’ in India. When a woman’s family wishes to marry their daughter off, they pay a dowry to the man’s family that she will be married into. If the dowry is deemed insufficient by the man’s family, instead of negotiating or refusing the marriage, they allow the marriage […]

[ October 30, 2007; 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm. ] Presentation regarding Social Impact Investing: SRI vs Sustainability;
Location: Abacus Portfolios - 1818 Market Street, Ste 3740, Philadelphia, PA 19103.

One of the micro-entrepreneurs we went to visit today sold jewelry. She didn’t make it, just bought and resold it. We were taken into a small room, perhaps 10 x 12’. There were two boys, her sons, sleeping on the one cot, about the size of an American double bed, with a wobbly ceiling fan […]

I went jogging today through the streets of Bangalore. I came upon a mother, perhaps in her late 20’s but she looked like she was in her 40’s. She had a son, perhaps 9, laying on the concrete to her left, his head in her lap. He had a blood-soaked bandage around his right shoulder. […]

I’ve now landed in Bangalore – ohh that familiar Indian smell.  If a country could have body odor, this one does. But it’s not unpleasant – it’s more like the perfume a hypothetical ex-girlfriend wore which, upon smelling it again, brings back a flood of emotional texture, a quickened pulse, fear and hope at the […]

American Airlines flight 136 to Heathrow, on my way to Bangalore, India to get some first-hand experience of the impact microfinance is or isn’t having on the ground. We left the ground at sunset, and as the plane rises, the sun dips. The city below is in complete darkness but I can still see the […]

[ January 18, 2008; ] Conference Dates:  January 18-21, 2008 @ the Hyatt Regency, San Francisco  (www.yjevents.com)
Friday, January 18, 10:15-11:15am:  1 hour pre-conference workshop titled “Money Matters,” which focuses on the basics of operating a yoga studio. 
**Gain an understanding of your relationship with money;  set up salaries and retirement accounts to secure your future; learn to implement sound business practices.  Opportunity to pre-order his […]

[ October 31, 2007; 8:00 am to 10:00 am. ] Retreat theme is “Leadership University” with over 100 members registered to attend. Brent will present two 50-minutes sessions back to back (8am; 9am) on October 31st.